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Ari Fitz
Ari Fitz (born Arielle Patrice Scott ), 25 was born on February 14th, 1989 in Vallejo, California. She is a " filmmaker, model, media personality and recent star on MTV’s Real World Ex-Plosion". She is well known for her YouTube channel itsarifitz, where she vlogs about androgynous style, queerness, and her life

Early Life
Ari Fitz grew up in Vallejo, California, and attended UC Berkeley on a full ride scholarship. She started out as a Physics major and then switched to studying IT and media.

Modeling
Ari Fitz was discovered by a photographer at a festival in San Francisco when she was 24. Many famous designers and labels, such as Levi’s, Sprint, Neiman Marcus, Michael Kors and Macy’s, hired her for jobs and she quickly became a successful model. Her well-paying and "lax" new profession as a model allowed her to pursue her long-time interest in filmmaking

Film
Ari began to pursue her interests in film, specifically in the horror and thriller genres. In the summer of 2013 she shot, wrote, directed, and edited her first short film, The Anniversary, a dark story about a queer relationship with a plot twist, on a budget of $200. "This short led to her first festival selection, attention from major artists and fashion companies and her ultimate casting on a reality show", The Real World San Francisco: Ex-Plosion. Since The Anniversary, Fitz has written, shot, directed, and edited a few other short films such as Gastronomy, a short about overconsumption.

Fitz has spoken openly about her identity and the work that she does, saying "I’m one of the few black queer persons working in the horror film industry...In [my work]...you will see different types of characters—you will see people of color, and people with different ways of loving each other,"

The Real World
Ari Fitz first gained popularity from being on MTV's The Real World San Francisco: Ex-Plosion, where she was the only openly queer cast member. She had to live with her ex-girlfriend Ashley Ceasar, with whom she had been in a very serious relationship with. She was one of the most-liked characters and created a YouTube channel to send shout-out videos to fans during the filming of the show. She calls her fans her MISFITZ, and her fan-base is constantly growing.

YouTube Channel
Ari's YouTube channel, itsarifitz, has upwards of 36,000 subscribers and over two million video views. Every Tuesday she posts a video for her androgynous style series Tomboyish, and every Friday she posts a Rando video, which might be a blog, an interview, a funny story, or updates about her life.

Tomboyish
Tomboyish is Fitz's androgynous style video series which comes out weekly. She started the show on May 19th, 2014. She has interviewed other androgynous models and style icons, done segments on how to dress for different occasions, and given more visibility to queer people of color and gender non-binary/conforming people